White Girls by Hilton Als: The physical effects of power on resistant bodies
These pages are populated by black male bodies in multiple guises: in drag, on stage, in the act of sex.…
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Here, there is no hand-wringing about the death of the book
A Little History of Literature and How to Read a Novelist.
BySpain is not merely a cultural museum for outsiders
One book that recognises this, and one that fails to do so.
ByDouglas Hurd on Robert Harris’ An Officer and a Spy
One question above all emerges when reading this book: would we in Britain have behaved better?
ByMorrissey’s autobiography: charmless sniping and quasi-erotic raptures
The book issues a clarification of his sexuality – his two-year live-in relationship with the photographer Jake Walters – so…
ByThe Confidence Trap by David Runciman: Are we too complacent about democracy?
A paean to muddling through.
ByA Watched Man: Why Paul Robeson’s voice spoke for us all
Robeson was and remains important because his conception of justice was based on something as simple as our fundamental right…
ByWas Norman Mailer the last tough guy?
Mailer married six times and had nine children; there were innumerable affairs, parties and arguments. He published 44 books. He…
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